"I hold it to be an honor," said he, "to have issued, on the mother's side, from the stock which wears and upholds the most famous crown in the world." His son Philip, who was but a novice in kingly greatness, showed less courtesy and less good taste than his father; he received the French ambassadors in a room hung with pictures representing the battle of Pavia.

There were some who concluded from that that the truce would not be of long duration.

[_Histoire d'Espagne,_ by M.Rosseeuw Saint-Hilaire, t.viii.

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64.] And it was not long before their prognostication was verified.